Category: Course Design and Preparation

Course Design and Preparation for Teachers and Faculty

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- Onboarding Meetings: Building Connection and Success from Day One
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Dr. Christine Rizzo, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, offers strategies on how to structure an onboarding session, identifies essential content to include, and provides a customized format based on course goals.
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- Strategies for Teaching Essential Employability Skills
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Russell Carpenter, Assistant Provost and Professor of English, Eastern Kentucky University, explores how faculty can effectively teach essential employability skills—such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking—within the constraints of the existing curriculum.
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- How Can You Scaffold Assignments to Promote Student Engagement All Semester Long?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, Day Halsey, Senior Instructor and Online Programs Operations Coordinator at Colorado State University, shares practical strategies for structuring assignments that guide students through the learning process.
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- How to Teach Transferable Skills for Career Readiness
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover an easy-to-follow, practical approach to equipping students with essential career skills for success.
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- How to Supercharge Your Slide Deck
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Transform your slide presentations into powerful learning tools with expert tips from Jeremy Rentz of Trine University, as he guides you on using on minimalist design and dual coding to enhance student engagement and retention in any classroom setting.
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- How Can I Create Alternative Syllabi to Make My Class More Inclusive?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Transform your syllabus into an engaging, learner-focused tool that welcomes diversity, demystifies policies, and fosters a supportive environment, ensuring students feel valued and motivated to succeed.
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- How Can I Alleviate Student Stress and Anxiety in My Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Reduce student stress and anxiety that hinder academic performance with evidence-based strategies that align with any course to create a supportive and growth-oriented classroom environment.
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- How Can I Teach Courses That Are Inclusively Accessible to All Learners?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gain six easy-to-implement and time-efficient strategies to create an inclusively accessible learning environment, empowering all students, including those with both documented and undocumented disabilities, to thrive!
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- Inclusive Learning Design Microcredential
- $299.00
- Revitalize your teaching, support every student’s success, and transform your course design by excelling in Universal Design for Learning with our Inclusive Learning Design Microcredential—enroll now to enhance engagement, equity, and effectiveness in your classroom!
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- Hybrid Learning Microcredential
- $299.00
- Our Hybrid Learning Microcredential equips you with expert insights and practical strategies to excel in flipped and blended teaching methods. Gain hands-on experience, adapt to new formats with confidence, and earn a digital badge to showcase your skills.
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- How Can I Create a Memorable Course Finale?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover how to create memorable and meaningful course conclusions in just 20 minutes with esteemed educators, ensuring both instructors and students feel accomplished and satisfied while avoiding the negative impact of dull final exams.
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- How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Explore ways to integrate generative AI into assessments, allowing educators to evaluate student understanding beyond writing, fostering deeper cognitive comprehension for tailored teaching and significant student growth.
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- Educators Reflect on Teaching and Learning in the Era of Generative AI
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Explore the rapid evolution of teaching practices in response to generative AI tools like ChatGPT and watch our expert panel of educators from diverse disciplines address academic integrity and pedagogical challenges. Gain the knowledge and insights to enhance your teaching in an ethical and student-centered way.
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- How Can I Prevent Plagiarism in the Artificial Intelligence Era?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Say goodbye to the worries of AI-related plagiarism and embrace a future of education firmly rooted in integrity, all in just a brief 20-minute session.
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- How Do I Get Students to Complete Reading Assignments?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn the research behind why students are not completing their reading assignments and take away a simple yet effective four-step, task-based approach that will get students to complete these assignments.
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- How Can I Use Technology Platforms to Engage Students in Active Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Gain new ideas for implementing user-friendly and free technology tools in classrooms to create authentic learning experiences for students.
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- How Can I Use AI to Draft Course Materials?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Educators will receive guidance into the world of AI tools for teaching which can lead to more effective and engaging teaching practices.
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- How Can I Use AI to Create Multimedia Teaching Materials?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to utilize AI to create course materials in order to free up more time for more human aspects of teaching, such as meeting with students, providing personal feedback, and content delivery.
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- How Can I Intentionally Create a Course that Boosts Learning and Decreases Student Stress?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- By making slight tweaks to course design, teaching faculty can make meaningful strides in relieving student mental health concerns and stress, as well as increasing learning and retention. This 20-Minute Mentor provides concrete examples to show you how!
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- How We Can Help Our Students Become Better Critical Thinkers, and Why It Matters
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Learn several easy-to-implement strategies to teach students critical thinking skills, which will not only impact their college success, but also their future.
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- Facing the Future: Educators Discuss Teaching in the Era of ChatGPT
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Join three educators as they discuss teaching in the era of ChatGPT, and answer your questions about embracing this technology.
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- How Can I Create a Meaningful Service-Learning Project for my Online Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Discover how to integrate meaningful communication skills with instruction and reflection to enrich the online student learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities through service learning.
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- How Can I Structure Class Discussions to Maximize Student Engagement?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are looking to improve the quality of class discussions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides a three-step process for structuring discussions to increase participation and student engagement.
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- What Interventions Help Students Master Deep Reading and Engage with Assignments?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who have mixed- or low-level reading skills among students combined with course materials that are reading intensive, this 20-Minute Mentor details skills to implement that help strengthen student reading as well as instructional techniques to intervene before students lag behind.
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- What Are the Benefits—and Challenges—of Hyflex Instruction?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who feel overwhelmed with hyflex instruction, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how the benefits of hyflex teaching outweigh the challenges for both teachers and students alike while delivering time saving successful strategies to employ.
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- How Can I Create an Engaging, Student-Focused Syllabus?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty whose syllabi are often unread by students, leading to confusion and even misinformation later in the course, this 20-Minute Mentor shows how to make a visually appealing syllabus that quickly communicates crucial course details to students in an engaging way.
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- How Can I Grade in Less Time with Greater Impact?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who want to improve student feedback while not adding to their grading workload, this 20-Minute Mentor provides expert guidance to creating better opportunities for your students while being more efficient with your grading.
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- How Can I Build an Antiracist Syllabus?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For educators who are looking for ways to close the gaps between privileged and minoritized students, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to improve the success of minoritized students through implementing an antiracist syllabus.
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- Teaching Fundamentals for New College Instructors
- $299.00
- Achieve and sustain classroom success through this Magna Online Course which provides an in-depth examination of five core principles of college teaching.
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- Using Interleaving in Course Design to Improve Retention
- $39.00 – $799.00
- For faculty whose students are not retaining course concepts for the duration of the semester, this Magna Online Seminar explains interleaving content during instruction and studying to improve student success through increased content retention.
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- How Can I Redesign a Classroom Assignment for Online Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This 20-Minute Mentor focuses on the instructional considerations necessary for supporting student learning online and the numerous factors for achieving online student success.
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- How Can I Write Better Exam Questions to Measure Student Performance and Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty seeking advice on writing more effective exam questions, this 20-Minute Mentor provides many tips and strategies for reinvigorating exam question sets to provide students better examinations.
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- How Can I Increase Exam Security with Custom Question Banks?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who want to increase their exam security, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to use question banks to create unique exams and improve academic integrity.
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- Giving Narrative Shape to Your Online Classroom
- $39.00 – $799.00
- More than ever, students are motivated by knowing how a course will serve them in future learning or in life after college. This Magna Online Seminar helps faculty create a narrative that connects daily learning to future careers.
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- Contemplative Pedagogy for Purposeful Teaching
- $39.00 – $799.00
- For faculty who are frustrated with the rapid, "get-it-done" pivot to remote instruction, this Magna Online Seminar provides strategies and tactics to immediately incorporate contemplative pedagogy into your teaching practice to provide more meaningful instruction and interactions.
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- What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For teachers who want to increase student learning by applying mastery learning in their courses, this 20-Minute Mentor explains how mastery learning improves student success, how instructors can apply it without dramatically increasing their workload, and how technology can be an asset and time saver if using this method.
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- How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- For faculty who are teaching online and are struggling with time management, this 20-Minute Mentor demonstrates how to plan and prioritize for the instructional activities that have the greatest impact on student learning.
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- Beyond Pedagogy: Infusing Equity into Your Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Content
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Have you integrated inclusive pedagogies into your teaching and wonder what’s next? Are you ready to be more intentional about making your assignments and course content more equity-minded? This Magna Online Seminar will identify evidence-based approaches to add equity-minded content and improve the success of minoritized students in your disciplinary and institutional context.
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- Harnessing the Power of Open Pedagogy and Open Syllabi to Promote Student Success
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Through the use of open pedagogy and open syllabi, instructors can empower students to play a larger role in the development and curation of learning materials for their classes. In this Magna Online Seminar, we will introduce the concepts of open pedagogy and open syllabi and discuss practical ways they have been successfully used in classroom settings with both commercial and open educational resource (OER) materials.
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- Backward Design: Aligning Outcomes to Activities and Assessments
- $39.00 – $799.00
- The best courses start with the end in mind. What will students learn or be able to do by the end of this class? This Magna Online Seminar helps you organize your workflow and equips you with the tools to line up your course learning elements with your student learning outcomes.
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- Planning and Designing Your College Course
- $39.00
- Planning and Designing Your College Course focuses on the planning aspects that precede the launching of a course—the work instructors do behind the scenes and that students usually aren’t privy to. You’ll be able to make each key part of your course design learner-centered and obtain strategies to get students to collaborate in the course design process.
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- Developing and Teaching an Online Course
- $299.00
- Developing and Teaching an Online Course is your surest path to online teaching success. This content-rich, 20- to 25-hour Magna Online Course provides core principles and best practices in online teaching—to get you up and running fast, without costly and frustrating false starts.
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- Principles of Effective College Teaching
- $299.00
- This intensive Magna Online Course provides in-depth instruction on the myriad responsibilities of a college teacher. You'll find it an indispensable resource as you prepare to teach.
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- Learning Assessment Techniques: How to Integrate New Activities that Gauge What and How Well Students Learn
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Learn techniques that will help improve your teaching and your students' ability to learn more effectively. Develop a framework you can use to better identify goals for your students, along with strategies to help them achieve those goals.
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- Teaching Critical Thinking to Students: How to Design Courses That Include Applicable Learning Experiences, Outcomes, and Assessments
- $39.00 – $799.00
- You'll learn the importance of building CT outcomes, assessments, and activities into your courses. Discover the likely misconceptions your students will have about critical thinking, what you can do to dispel them as quickly as possible, and why tying CT to a specific discipline can help students better understand the concept.
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- Aligning Student and Faculty Perceptions of Rigor
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Gain strategies to help you expand students concept and definition of learning, get students thinking about how they learn, and promote self-directed learning.
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- Incorporating 360-Degree Assessment into Your Classroom
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Discover 360-degree assessment as a multiple-input approach to feedback that can improve teaching outcomes for instructors and learning outcomes for students, maximize and enhance deep, meaningful learning, and promote achievement for both teachers and students.
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- Creative Course Design: Yes You Can!
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Examine the value of interdisciplinary thinking to solve learning challenges, discover how to apply creative approaches to your course outcomes and assessments, and discover new excitement for teaching and collaborating within your discipline.
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- Hacking Multimedia for Effective Learning
- $39.00 – $799.00
- No matter your familiarity with multimedia, you will leave this Magna Online Seminar knowing how to choose and integrate media effectively into your courses.
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- Course Planning by the Calendar
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Learn how to take a more holistic view of your courses by shifting your mindset beyond content to consider course rhythms and the natural ebbs and flows of student motivation.
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- Reaching Neurodiverse Students: Course Creation Strategies
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Discover that neurodiverse differences often are not openly declared and might be hard to recognize in individuals in a classroom of students. Explore the common barriers to learning experienced by neurodiverse students and learn strategies to build content and environments that support breaking down those barriers and improving learning for all students.
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- Getting Started with Backward Design: Meaningful and Measurable Learning Outcomes
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar discusses the purpose and best practices of course outcome design while identifying and refining the course outcomes in your own program, course, or unit.
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- Increase Student Engagement, Inclusion, and Visual Literacy with Graphic Novels
- $39.00 – $799.00
- Discover how changing instruction from using traditional text to adding graphic novel(s) can open communication with different student groups and also develop skills, such as visual literacy, in all students.
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- Course Design for Faculty: Instructional Design Basics
- $39.00 – $799.00
- This Magna Online Seminar is perfect for those of you who are just a little lost, a little confused, or really want a glimpse of course planning with a real-life instructional designer. This seminar will focus on the prep work that happens before the syllabus is given to students.
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- Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses
- $299.00
- The Magna Online Course Infusing Critical Thinking into Your Courses gives teachers the tools to light a path for their students. Led by Linda B. Nilson, PhD, the founding director of Clemson University's Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation, it presents research-based, classroom-tested best practices that can be immediately applied in the classroom.
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- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators
- $39.00
- Helping Students Learn: Resources, Tools, and Activities for College Educators is a must-have guide for faculty. While the roles in the college classroom often are defined by teachers teaching and students learning, the reality is that not many students have a clear understanding of how to learn.
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- The Teaching Professor
- From: $19.00 / month
- The Teaching Professor is the lively, highly informative newsletter with a singular purpose: to provide ideas and insight to educators who are passionate about teaching. A source of cutting-edge information and inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at universities and colleges worldwide.
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- Monday Morning Mentor
- $1,049.00
- Monday Morning Mentor delivers one of our popular Magna 20-Minute Mentor online programs each week - 16 in the fall and 16 in the spring.
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- How Can I Use LMS Conditional Releases to Efficiently and Intentionally Engage My Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Tools embedded in most learning management systems can simplify faculty workload while intentionally engaging students in course content. One such tool is conditional release, which releases online course material contingent upon a student meeting a particular condition or reaching a predetermined criterion.
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- How Can I Add Choice to My Course to Give Students Autonomy and Motivate Deep Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Authentic assessment can be difficult when you are faced with a vastly diverse audience of students. How can we best meet their needs when each of their learning styles, skills, and passions widely vary? The answer to this challenge may live within the concept of choice.
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- How Can I Be My Own Instructional Designer?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Sometimes, faculty don't have the support of an instructional designer to help plan their courses. In fact, many faculty never have any help from an instructional designer whatsoever. So, where do they start?
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- How Can I Write a Course Syllabus That’s Worth Reading?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Your syllabus is one of the first impressions your course will make on your students. Need an aha moment to punch up your syllabi? Learn how to transform them from long, boring and text-laden documents to something elegant and engaging that your students will want to read.
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- How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Backwards design is a straightforward process that provides value to both learners and instructors by creating alignment between objectives, class format, and examination questions. This method can assure student success by focusing on the outcomes first and ensuring that the course content aligns with those outcomes, while also creating a better process for instructors by allowing them to focus on their own content more efficiently.
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- What Can Engagement in Games Teach Me About Engagement in My Courses?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- We can all use fresh ideas for engaging students with course content. What can the games we play teach us about designing our courses? Games have kept people engaged for decades because they have systematically designed engagement practices. In this program we will explore how to recognize these engagement practices and apply them into course design. Learn how to use the games that surround us to make our courses more powerful.
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- How Do I Create a Class That Support First-Year Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn several design-based first-year supports, how to create opportunities in the facilitation of your courses to create and build classroom skills, and how to plan/implement evaluations to continue to support students in their educational journey. Designing with students in mind first helps you be purposeful in your approach to building their skills and meeting their needs.
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- How Can I Plan (or Revise) My Courses More Efficiently?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Do you have a system or standard process for prepping a course you've taught before? Where do you start? Often, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. What most of us need is a strategic, instructionally sound set of steps to help guide our decision-making. This 20-Minute Mentor provides just that, a four-step model considering the big picture goals, major content areas, calendar implications, and assessments.
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- How Can Preparing to Teach Online Improve My Face-to-face Teaching?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, learn how the process of teaching online can improve your face-to-face teaching.
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- What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- In this 20-minute session, faculty become more aware of cultural differences as well as the intersectionality of all different cultures represented in the classroom to engage with students on a deeper level.
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- How Can I Use Simple Gamification Strategies to Engage my Students?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program explains what you need to do to gamify more courses and ensure students persist even through failure. You'll be exposed to several effective gamification strategies and examples of each. You'll also explore how these strategies can foster student persistence and engagement.
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- How Do I Design Effective Combinations of Gamified Elements to Encourage Deeper Learning?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- When gamifying your courses, it's vital that you measure the effectiveness of gamification and identify which aspects keep students most engaged. At times, you might have to make small changes. At other times, you might have to stop gamifying and reevaluate. This program will help you find the right fit for your courses.
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- Copyright Crash Course: How Can I Stay on the Right Side of the Law?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program not only teaches the core concepts of copyright law, but its also useful in a train-the-trainer sense—it is designed to give you the ideas and tools you need to be able to be a copyright ninja in an academic environment.
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- How Can I Bring Pop to My Classroom with Pop Culture?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Create a positive and unique classroom environment in which students are more connected to your content through these concrete strategies for applying pop culture to your course.
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- How Can I Leverage Force Multipliers in the Classroom?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This presentation will show you how to enhance your productivity and improve your efficiency by accessing a host of what could easily be described as virtual teaching assistants. You'll learn how to get help with all the things that matter to you: grading, teaching, interacting with students, conducting research, and kindling students interest in learning.
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- How Do I Align Learning Objectives with Technology Using Backward Design?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn how to peel back the layers of your teaching challenges and work backwards from your learning objectives to your choice of technology solutions.
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- What Activities and Assignments Promote Critical Thinking?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- Learn to create a discipline-specific strategy to grow your students critical thinking skills, identify critical thinking content, and adapt your courses accordingly. This program will give you a clearer and deeper understanding of critical thinking and how to teach it in your courses.
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- What Are 5 FAQ’s About Faculty Roles in the Flipped Class?
- $39.00 – $499.00
- This program will give you the confidence you need to start flipping your own courses right away. Discover the answers to the five most common areas of concern for instructors new to flipping.
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Course Design and Preparation for Teachers and Faculty

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